Sunburnt Veils

- Blurb -

Sunburnt Veils is a smart, funny, character-based exploration of Islamophobia through a heroine who' s the kind of girl who reads at parties, but pushes herself to take a visible stand after a fellow student calls in a bomb threat on her first day of university, after she leaves a bag in a lecture theatre to take a phone call. Girl meets boy, ghosts his text messages, then convinces him to help her run for the student union. Just your typical love story with a hijabi twist. Tara wears hijab even though her parents hate it, and in a swipe right world she' s looking for the ' will go to the ends of the earth for you' type of love. Or, she would be, if she hadn' t sworn off boys to focus on getting into med. Besides, what' s wrong with just crushing on the assassins, mages and thieves in the fantasy books she reads? When a bomb threat on her first day of university throws her together with totally annoying party king and oh-so-entitled politician' s son Alex, things get complicated. Tara needs to decide if she' s happy reading about heroes, or if she' s ready to step up and be one herself.